MS-Windows client to Linux server ?

[Peter Van Osta <pvosta unionbio-eu com>]

Hi,

I have developed an ORBit-based client-server system on Linux, but we 
now get a question for linking an MS-windows based client to our Linux 
server system.

What do we need to get our ORBit client compiled under MS-Windows ? Do 
we have to use a commerical compiler in order to allow our customer to 
build his software to connect to our Linux server ? I have heard about 
Cygwin for compilation under MS-Windows, but would somthing like MS 
Visual C++ also do ? Could we create a .dll with an ORBit-based software 
library on MS-Windows NT, 2000 and XP for our customer in his own 
software, regardless of the MS-Windows compiler ?

Are there other ORBs running under MS-windows which a customer could use 
to connect to our ORBit server ? How do we best communicate the IOR string ?

Best regards,

Peter Van Osta

Union Biometrica N.V./S.A.
European Scientific Operations (ESO)
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